Phew, last one! spent a lot of the first day looking for a camera for Byron, (he lost it at the club in Hangzhou) youd think itd be simple here! Had lunch at TGIFidays!!! Then after deciding it was too cloudy to go up the peak, as thered be no views, we wondered around and found a cinema! Watched Star Wars 3, which I thought was really good, even though am not a big fan. So cool being in a cinema after 3 months! Then met up with the others for some d...

So Yangshou. This is very similar to our view as we came out of our hotel, minus the temple in the background. The bridge is almost identical. Arrived after a few hours on the coach, beautiful drive, but slept a lot of the way. so tired. In the afternoon, after arriving in the town, we went to the local cooking school. Yes me at a cooking school! Wonders will never cease! We were taken around some markets first and shown some of the strange vegetables, ...

This pic is the closest I can get to Ping'an, the first village we stayed in, in Longsheng. All the houses looked similar to these, except all wooden but were on a steep sloped hill. Repace mountains in the background with rolling green hills with terraces of rice fields on them. The village was amazing. Really getting a true taste of how most Chinese live. And our hostel. wow. Was like a retreat. Youd imagine people coming to China just for this. The views...

SHANGHAI.... Had two hour train trip to the big city. Had an incident with a very rude Chinese woman who after getting on the train quite late, after wed all sat down and put our luggage in the holdalls, shouted at us to move them to fit her stuff in. Very mean woman. Glad she had to have her stuff on the floor in the end! so yeh, Shanghai. We went on the 'psychadelic tunnel' which runs under the Bund, under the river to the other side. There was a mas...

Sorry guys, Ive been very bad! Am so far behind in postcards!!! Ill do the remainding cities, prob in less detail though, seems so long ago already! How quickly things change! So yes Hangzhou... very beautiful city. One of my favs. If I was gonna live anywhere in China it'd be here. The city is just so clean, very new looking. Quite small. All centred around a big lake in the centre, with a little jetee and small boats crossing it. (I still am not ...